Command Post: "Jordan Times
Iraqi opposition groups are to gather [in Nassiriya] Tuesday for the first time since President Saddam Hussein's fall in Baghdad, but the man tipped to be the country's next leader will be noticeable by his absence.This is the same meeting to which Iraqi defector Nizar Khazraji was headed when he was assassinated ."
Ahmad Chalabi, in line to take power in Iraq after an interim administration, said Sunday he would send a representative to the gathering, where the US is expected to lay out its vision of a post-Saddam Iraq.
But amid already extensive scepticism about US plans for remaking the country, Chalabi ? who has lived in exile most of his life ? has backing from only parts of the US administration and remains an unknown quantity for most Iraqis.
